Walden Bello
Activist • Academic • Journalist • Writer
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Now Comes the Hard Part…
Successful revolutions are rare; successful reform is even rarer, claims Samuel Huntington in his classic “Political Order...
October 1965: The shadow on Indonesia’s new democracy
There are parts of Jakarta that look almost lovely in the evening. As we drive along glitzy Thamrin Boulevard to my hotel,...
The Crisis of Humanitarian Intervention
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the...
The Food Wars
Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic...
Asia: The Coming Fury
As goods pile up in wharves from Bangkok to Shanghai, and workers are laid off in record numbers, people in East Asia are...
Alternative views of the economic crisis: Walden Bello Interviewed by the BBC
Meanwhile, different debates were taking place at the "alternative" World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. There,...